Renate Klein, an associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article on how the families of clients of accused prostitute Alexis Wright in Kennebunk might cope with the fallout of a family member being implicated. Klein said the question of whether names […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a Hartford Courant article about former University of Maine President Robert Kennedy, who recently resigned as president of the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, returning $25,000 in what was described as an unvouchered expense account. Kennedy resigned earlier this month in the midst of a controversy over improperly […]
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In a story on The Atlantic Cities website, UMaine economist Todd Gabe was mentioned as having researched how workers in three broad types of jobs — knowledge-based creative class jobs (in science and technology; business and the professions; and arts, design media, land entertainment) lower-skill routine service jobs (in food preparation and retail sales for […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was quoted in a Boston Globe story about the coming vote on Question 1, which seeks to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine. Brewer discussed the phenomenon of what is known as the “social desirability effect,” with people who say they are undecided on an issue being likely to give a […]
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A UMaine research project was noted in an Inside Higher Ed article about a Florida meeting of prevention educators. The story included information about a project by former UMaine graduate student Molly Schenck, who wrote and directed a play, “It’s Not that Simple,” in 2008. She resurrected the dance-theater-new media performance again in 2011 as […]
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An article in the Maine Sunday Telegram about how new state government policies on contracts for intellectual services such as research and training are affecting the state’s public universities noted that a $3.5 million contract for providing nutritional education to food-stamp recipients, which went to the private University of New England, resulted in the loss […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) reported on a fundraising walk organized by UMaine’s Alumni Chapter of Delta Zeta sorority during Homecoming Weekend. Proceeds from the Hike for Hearing walk will benefit audiology services at the Warren Center in Bangor. Heidi Wurpel, the president of Delta Zeta, was interviewed for the story. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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An interview with University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist Jim Dill was the basis for a Maine Sunday Telegram gardening column about dealing with pest insects without pesticides. Dill explained UMaine Extension’s Green Bug Education Program, part of UMaine Extension’s Integrated Pest Management Program, which helps people deal with pests without using unnecessary […]
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An article in the Bangor Daily News about a Washington County cranberry farm and the market options for cranberries noted that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension has estimated this year’s harvest will be good with a yield of about 2.5 million pounds, which is better than last year’s harvest of 2.4 million pounds. Contact: […]
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Comments from University of Maine marine scientist Mark Wells were included in a New York Times science blog about a California businessman who undertook his own ecological experiment, dumping 100 tons of iron dust into the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to create a plankton bloom to biologically remove carbon dioxide from the water and […]
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